Letters

As the school district and community have opportunity to reflect upon the ACT scores produced by juniors and senior students from the 2015-16 school year, it is important to remember the dedication and hard work of teachers, parents, administrators and students.

Across our five high schools, alternative learning center, five middle schools and six elementary schools, we are fortunate enough to have caring, dedicated and driven educators and community members looking forward to the growth and improvement our students will make.

If ever a police department needed veteran, seasoned and experienced leadership, that time is now.

That is why I find it discouraging there were voices at the recent Harriman City Council meeting who inferred it would have been best to go back to a “good old boy” system of choosing the person to lead a vital service for our city.

It is even more discouraging these remarks were said before the new chief has even started in his position.

Norman Mattoon Thomas was a six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. In 1944 he said, “The American people will never knowingly accept socialism. But under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened.”

He went on to say, “ I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”

It’s amazing to me that there seems to be such a willingness to believe everything in the mainstream media; some Democrats even with the day and age of a data-driven cellphones don’t know the news channels are fake news ... propaganda.

Not that this freedom of speech is to last much longer, as it has been announced by Obama that he is turning over our Internet to a UN agency ... ICANN. I guess he is doing it because “I CANN.” (That is a joke.)

I am a retired DOE contractor with 31 years’ experience in records and information management. I feel the need to share some of my knowledge of required handling of federal records in regard to the Hillary Clinton email issue.

For the sake of simplicity and space, I will disregard the classified info and private-server issues and only discuss records in general (hard copy and electronic).

In last Monday’s article about Comcast still not paying its REU bill of over $300,000, the Comcast PR lady showed great concern for expanding broadband to create jobs and “vital economic support” in Roane County.

What she didn’t mention is that Comcast has just handed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Nashville lobbyists and our state representatives to stop broadband expansion by anyone but themselves.